INTRODUCTION

María Luisa Carrió-Pastor

SECTION 1. CORPUS STUDIES ON ACADEMIC DISCOURSE

Chapter 1. Variation in the use of self-mentions in different specific fields of knowledge in academic English

María Luisa Carrió-Pastor

Chapter 2. The expression of gratitude in the prefaces of academic books in linguistics

Francisco Alonso-Almeida

Chapter 3. Criticism in Russian academic book reviews of the soviet and post-soviet periods

Alisa Kriukova

Chapter 4. Modal verb categories in English medical abstracts

Elena Quintana Toledo

Margarita Esther Sánchez Cuervo

Chapter 5. A disciplinary analysis of fairly in late modern English scientific writing

Francisco J. Álvarez-Gil

Chapter 6. An analysis of lexical bundles in English academic journal descriptions

Davide Simone Giannoni

Chapter 7. Collaborating with disciplinary experts in corpus compilation processes

Isabel Herrando-Rodrigo

Chapter 8. Researching academic genres, language and discourse with computer assisted qualitative data analysis software

Ana Bocanegra-Valle

SECTION 2. STUDIES ON LEARNER CORPORA

Chapter 9. A corpus-driven exploration of discourse markers in L2 academic texts

Višnja Pavi¿i¿ Takä

Barbara Kruži¿

Sanja Vakanjac Ivezi¿

Chapter 10. Personal metadiscoursive markers in a final degree dissertations corpus on education sciences

Francisco Núñez-Román

Chapter 11. Interactional metadiscourse features in the written production made by Spanish EFL learners

Chiara Tasso

Chapter 12. Intercultural rhetoric in the written academic discourse: the rhetorical function of citation in English and Spanish by college students and expert writers

David Sánchez-Jiménez

Chapter 13. Measuring linguistic complexity and proficiency in learner academic English

Javier Pérez Guerra

Chapter 14. A new linguistic corpus in Catalan and the teaching of languages for specific purposes at university

Anna Montesinos López

Francesca Romero Forteza

Chapter 15. Overused bundles in the written academic English of Spanish EFL students

Miguel Fuster-Márquez

Jesús Fernández-Domínguez

Chapter 16. Verbs of vision in academic discourse: variations in the use of their non-literal senses in L1 expert, L1 non-expert and L2 non-expert writing

Hanna Skorczynska

Chapter 17. Showing emotion in academic discourse. A pragmatic analysis

Eva M. Mestre-Mestre

Chapter 18. Proofreading, the net and foreign language anxiety in the use of apology formulae in an online forum. A learner corpus study

Milagros Torrado-Cespón